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Foreign Affairs / Re: Ukraine : Over 9,000 Russian Soldiers Dead And 15,000 Wounded (pic) by nurudeen181(m): 7:03am On Mar 22, 2022 |
you mean excluding the 25000 that were reportedly dead last week? |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Fascinating Photos Reveal Life In Iran And Afghanistan In The 70s. by nurudeen181(m): 7:00am On Mar 22, 2022 |
Explorers:this are jews not iranians |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Fascinating Photos Reveal Life In Iran And Afghanistan In The 70s. by nurudeen181(m): 6:58am On Mar 22, 2022 |
all pictures shows students and vacation spot.. i know there are british-iranians. American-iranian etc. what if they were the only ones in the picture.. do you watch farsi tv or ifilm before you can conclude this are iranians.. and the afghanistan pictures so nothing but a similitude to what the iranian pictures show.. its the westerners who were there to enforce their culture on them via western education.. why was a picture from prayer ground or quaranic graduation or a maket not shown... we all know how schools were in those day.. another propaganda news from mainstream outlet 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Mcdonald's Closed 847 Restaurants In Russia. Russians Turned The Logo 90 Degrees by nurudeen181(m): 8:20am On Mar 21, 2022 |
Lightorder:nawa o.. just one you say.. ok probably our defination of succes might be different.. North korea is succesful, Iran is succesful, venezuela is succesful, cuba is succesful, mexico is succesful as in too many countries.. see botswana, see djibouti.. i believe you will want to argue that this countries depends on some US whatever but dont worry, i have a question for you, tell me just one country in the world that the US and its western alies didnt destroy one thing or the other within their country? 1 Like 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Mcdonald's Closed 847 Restaurants In Russia. Russians Turned The Logo 90 Degrees by nurudeen181(m): 8:15am On Mar 21, 2022 |
Ekoblendedsince:is it not better for nigeria to be invaded than this mess we are in?.. 4 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Says It’s Struck Another Mercenary Base In Ukraine by nurudeen181(m): 1:32pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
few more precision strikes 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Russia Says It’s Struck Another Mercenary Base In Ukraine by nurudeen181(m): 1:32pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
Russian forces hit a Ukrainian special forces training center early
on Sunday, killing more than 100 local troops and foreign
mercenaries, the Ministry of Defense has said.
A Ukrainian Special Operations Forces training center near the town
of Ovruch in the northern Zhytomyr Region, which hosted the
mercenaries, was targeted by “high-precision air-launched
missiles,” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said during a
briefing.
The airstrike has eliminated more than 100 Ukrainian special ops
troops and foreign soldiers of fortune, he added.
A week ago, Russia destroyed another mercenary base at the
Yavoriv range in the western Lviv region, saying that up to 180
foreign fighters were killed there.
Kiev disputed those numbers and put the death toll at 35 people. It
also insisted that all those who died in the attack were Ukrainian.
However, after the strike, reports emerged of mercenaries fleeing
to neighboring Poland in large numbers. Some would-be
combatants have complained on social media and in interviews
that the conflict turned out not to be what they expected.
Russia has warned that it was aware of all the locations of
mercenaries on the territory of Ukraine and promised to continue
targeting them “without mercy.”
“All further responsibility for the death of this category of foreign
citizens in Ukraine rests solely with the leadership of these
countries," who encourage its people to answer to Kiev’s repeated
calls for help in the conflict, Konashenkov said last week.
Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine last month following a seven-
year standoff over Kiev's failure to implement the terms of the
Minsk agreements, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the
breakaway Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
The German- and French-brokered protocols had been designed to
regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.
Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a
neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc.
Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and
has denied claims it had been planning to retake the two republics
by force. 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russian "Predator-Drone" Destroy 4 Ukrainian Military Vehicles by nurudeen181(m): 1:16pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
BritishNaija:hnmm.. calm down and learn.. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Discounted Oil Will Destroy OPEC by nurudeen181(m): 10:07am On Mar 20, 2022 |
Mickykarim:in that quest, they will be the richest country in the world and most feard, i dont even pray that happens, it cant supply the whole worl but atleast make it the game changer in oil dealings |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Ridicules Idea Its Cosmonauts Wore Yellow For Ukraine by nurudeen181(m): 10:03am On Mar 20, 2022 |
shebi dey say Russia left space, they left a US astronaut to fall off and that Nasa has launched a rocket to hold the space station from falling or bring the astronaut home... nawa o. missinformation |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Putin Has 'no Way Out' Of Failed Ukraine Invasion by nurudeen181(m): 9:46am On Mar 20, 2022 |
AfriBreakinNews:oga it seems you are the blind one here, where's the prove.. |
Romance / Re: Any Man That Collects Back His Gift From A Lady Is A Weak Man by nurudeen181(m): 4:58pm On Mar 19, 2022 |
mtchew.. let it be embarasing now.. is it your embarasment.. i love be weak.. it gives me satis faction... 7 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Used Modern Fight Jet In Syria, Old Fighter Jet In Ukraine by nurudeen181(m): 7:21am On Mar 19, 2022 |
people wey get very simple problems for their family wey them no fit solve they talk about Russia and other world activities.. iranu |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US Aircraft Down During NATO Drills by nurudeen181(m): 7:09am On Mar 19, 2022 |
not in war yet falling like paper. what if in war.. they say bad weather.. hhhhhh not in war yet falling like paper. what if in war.. they say bad weather.. hhhhhh 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / US Aircraft Down During NATO Drills by nurudeen181(m): 7:02am On Mar 19, 2022 |
A US Marine Corps aircraft with four people on board went missing
in northern Norway during the “Cold Response” NATO exercises in
the Arctic, the Norwegian military confirmed on Friday. A possible
crash site has been located and rescue crews are trying to reach it
overland due to bad weather conditions.
The V-22 Osprey was on a training mission and was due to land at
the Forsvaret Air Force base of Bodo at 6pm local time on Friday,
the Norwegian military said in a statement . Its last known location
was at Saltfjellet, a mountain range in the Nordland province.
Search and rescue efforts were launched by 6:30pm local time,
and “discoveries were made from the air” at 9:17pm, at Gratadalen
in Beiarn, the military in Oslo added. Due to bad weather
conditions, however, local police and rescue services have been
dispatched to the site by road.
“There have been snowstorms in the area and winds that are quite
strong and increasing. So the weather is playing against us,” rescue
service spokesman Thomas Ringen told the newspaper VG .
However, Ringen said the “area of interest” is not far from a road,
so he hoped it would be “reasonably easy” for rescuers to reach it.
Friday was supposed to be the last day of Cold Response 2020, a
massive NATO exercise hosted by Norway and designed to test
alliance forces’ capabilities and cooperation “in a challenging Arctic
environment with rugged terrain and extreme cold
weather,” according to the US Marine Corps.
Some 1,500 US troops from the USMC, army, navy and the air force
were to take part in the drills, along with forces from eight other
NATO and “partner nations” numbering 15,000 in total.
The tilt-rotor Bell-Boeing V-22 is an aircraft of unique design,
capable of taking off and landing like a helicopter but flying like an
airplane. This makes it challenging to fly, however. During
development, the model had four crashes that resulted in 30
deaths. A total of 12 more people have died in seven crashes since
the V-22 went into service in 2007, operated mainly by the Marines
and the US Air Force. |
Politics / Re: Nonye Soludo: Meet The New Anambra State First Lady , Who Is A Blogger - Picture by nurudeen181(m): 2:34pm On Mar 18, 2022 |
she looks like a russian.. very harsh looking face.. abi she be wrestler |
Romance / Re: Ekaterina Lisina, World's Tallest Model Struggles To Find A Lover by nurudeen181(m): 9:18am On Mar 18, 2022 |
ednut1:waiting this one dey yarn again... e mad gon. |
Autos / Re: Belarus Officials Storm Nigeria For Proforce Armoured Personnel Carriers (video) by nurudeen181(m): 9:12am On Mar 18, 2022 |
Reflect7:china never expert for fighter jets. iran never make one, south africa no dey reason am.. when nigeria go start.. 50years 1 Like 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Putin Fires General Roman Gavrilov, Who Has Suffered Major Losses In Ukraine by nurudeen181(m): 9:07am On Mar 18, 2022 |
believe UK news at your own peril 1 Like 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US Central Bank Hikes Interest Rate, Blames Russia by nurudeen181(m): 6:23am On Mar 18, 2022 |
everything na russia |
Foreign Affairs / US Central Bank Hikes Interest Rate, Blames Russia by nurudeen181(m): 6:20am On Mar 18, 2022 |
The US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee has
boosted its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, the first
increase in over three years as the policymaking body seeks to rein
in near-record inflation. The new rate will run between .25% and
.5%.
In addition to the rate hike announced Wednesday, six more are
planned throughout 2022, according to a statement from the
privately-owned institution.
The Fed noted it “ seeks to achieve maximum employment and
inflation at the rate of 2% over the long run ,” insisting the
unemployment rate would finish out the year at a reasonable 3.5%.
As of February, it stood at 3.8%.
The Fed also announced it plans to start offloading Treasury
securities, agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in
the near future. Chairman Jerome Powell told journalists after the
meeting that the central bank could begin selling those assets as
soon as May, producing the equivalent of another rate hike, which
he was quick to pin on Russia.
Powell insisted the committee was “ determined to take the
measures necessary to restore price stability ,” acknowledging the
“ risks of further upward pressure on inflation and inflation
expectations.”
While the White House had initially claimed the soaring US inflation
was only “ transitory ,” the Fed later admitted the problem was more
serious than they believed and have belatedly attempted to wrestle
it into submission.
Individual committee members admitted they expect higher-than-
usual inflation, “ reflecting supply and demand imbalances related to
the pandemic, higher energy prices, and broader price pressures ,”
while projected GDP was downgraded from 4% to 2.8% - a drop
blamed on the conflict in Ukraine.
“ In the near term the invasion and related events are likely to create
additional upward pressure on inflation and weigh on economic
activity,” the committee said, acknowledging that beyond the
“ tremendous human and economic hardship ,” they were uncertain
what the conflict between Russia and Ukraine would ultimately
bring.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hit back against the endless
torrent of “ blame Russia ” narratives on Wednesday, telling
“ ordinary westerners ” that they were being conned into blaming
their own government's problems on Moscow.
“ You are being persistently told that your current difficulties are the
result of Russia’s hostile actions and that you have to pay
from your own pockets for the efforts to counter the alleged Russian
threat ,” Putin said in a speech. “ All of that is a lie. ”
The rush to hike interest rates at a pace not seen in years, in an
attempt to bring inflation back under control, has been met with
cries for caution from some experts, as the last time interest rates
were raised so quickly, it triggered a significant recession. With
certain parts of the US economy still not recovered from
government-imposed pandemic policies, such an outcome could
finish them off, critics said.
Some financial experts were less than sanguine about the prospect
of multiple rate hikes over the course of the coming year,
suggesting the 'medicine' might do more harm than good – even if
it didn't end up killing the patient.
“ We might be on the cusp of the Fed raising rates at the same time
there is a minus sign in front of GDP ,” Peter Boockvar, chief
investment officer of Bleakley Advisory Group, wrote in response to
the Fed's move, according to CNBC. “ What an awful position to be
in .”
US gas prices have reached record highs, surging 38% over the
last 12 months, while grain and other food staple commodities are
in short supply. Meanwhile, nearly all market indicators have
outstripped the Fed’s 2% inflation target. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Bioweapon Lab Sponsored By Pentagon. by nurudeen181(m): 9:27pm On Mar 17, 2022 |
wicked |
Foreign Affairs / Bioweapon Lab Sponsored By Pentagon. by nurudeen181(m): 9:11pm On Mar 17, 2022 |
Moscow believes that laboratories in Ukraine funded by the US
military were making biological weapons components, but that
local staff was being kept in the dark about their research, a senior
Russian general said on Thursday.
Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, who commands the Nuclear,
Biological and Chemical Protection Forces of Russia, presented
documents and imagery showing why the military has come to
such a conclusion.
“We believe that components of biological weapons were being
made on the territory of Ukraine,” said Kirillov.
He noted that the documents he was presenting “have the
signatures of real officials and are certified by the seals of
organizations,” for those journalists and experts in the West
doubting their veracity.
One document, dated March 6, 2015 confirms the “direct
participation of the Pentagon in the financing of military biological
projects in Ukraine,” Kirillov said. The US officially funded the
projects through the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, according to the
Agreement on Joint Biological Activities. However, the evidence
shows that the real recipients of some $32 million in funds were
Ukrainian Defense Ministry laboratories in Kiev, Odessa, Lvov and
Kharkov.
These facilities were chosen by the US Department of Defense’s
Threat Reduction Administration (DTRA), and the contractor Black
and Veatch, to carry out the U-P-8 project, aimed at studying the
pathogens of Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, and
hantaviruses, Kirillov said, pointing to a slide with the Pentagon’s
request.
“From our point of view, the interest of US military biologists is due
to the fact that these pathogens have natural foci both in Ukraine
and in Russia, and their use can be disguised as natural disease
outbreaks,” the general said.
According to the evidence, the labs isolated three bacterial
pathogens (causing plague, brucellosis and leptospirosis) and six
families of viruses, including coronaviruses, all of which were
drug-resistant and spread rapidly from animals to humans. A
number of documents confirmed the samples taken in Ukraine to
other countries – Georgia, Germany, and the UK.
Kirillov showed official documents confirming the transfer of 5,000
samples of blood serum taken from Ukrainian citizens to the
Pentagon-backed Richard Lugar center in Tbilisi, Georgia. Another
773 biological assays were transferred to the UK, while an
agreement was signed for the transfer of “unlimited quantities” of
infectious materials to the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Germany’s
leading center for animal diseases.
However, the analysis of the obtained evidence suggests that
Ukrainian specialists were not aware of the potential risks of
transferring these materials, and may have been kept in the dark
about the true goal of the ongoing research, Kirillov noted.
Documents from Project P-781, a study of ways of transmitting
diseases to humans through bats, showed it was carried out by the
Kharkov laboratory and the Lugar Center in Georgia, but Ukraine
received most of the $1.6 million grant for the project. Kirillov said
that “systematic” research in this area has been carried out since
2009, under the supervision of US specialists – referencing
projects P-382, P-444 and P-568.
As one of the key people involved, Kirillov named the head of the
DTRA office at the US Embassy in Kiev, Joanna Wintrol.
“Maybe she’s worth talking to, journalists?” he said.
Wintrol left Kiev in August 2020. In her parting interview, she
insisted no US scientists worked in Ukrainian biolabs and accused
Russia of spreading “false information” about the program.
Kirillov pointed to mass outbreaks of avian flu in Russia and the EU
in 2021, causing billions in damages, while the Kharkov Institute of
Veterinary Medicine was studying wild birds as transmission
vectors and assessing conditions under which the spread could
cause economic damage and food insecurity. Evidence now shows
the institute collected strains of avian flu capable of jumping
species, Kirillov said, calling for an international investigation into
the matter.
Some of the documents at the Kherson laboratory appear to be
missing and may have been destroyed, Kirillov said, suggesting it
was related to the 2018 outbreak of a mosquito-borne parasitic
disease in that region, and a possible cover-up.
Four cases of dirofilariasis were detected in February that year,
which is not typical for mosquito life cycles, the general said.
Pentagon representatives visited the local hospitals in April,
collecting medical records and getting briefed on the
epidemiological investigation. However, “no documentary evidence
regarding this outbreak has been found in the Kherson laboratory,”
leading the Russian military to believe that “the urgency of
destroying such documentary evidence is explained by the desire to
prevent access to them by Russian specialists.”
There was also an outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis in 2018,
among the citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s
Republics, with 70 cases detected around the village of Pesky – on
the frontline with Ukrainian troops – alone.
“This may indicate a deliberate infection, or an accidental leakage
of the pathogen from one of the biological laboratories located on
the territory of Ukraine,” Kirillov said.
The Russian general brought up the long history of US conducting
banned biological research in other countries, noting as an
example that in 2010 Washington apologized for syphilis
experiments in Guatemala.
“We will continue to examine the evidence and inform the global
community about the illegal activities of the Pentagon and other US
government agencies in Ukraine,” Kirillov said |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Council Of Europe Expels Russia From Human Rights Body by nurudeen181(m): 2:39pm On Mar 17, 2022 |
secnelly:do you have any idea how the Russian Rubble has grown in the midst of sanctions?.. naira no match in the past 5years.. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: “chinese People Responded To Nato's Call Not To Support Russia In Anyway by nurudeen181(m): 2:35pm On Mar 17, 2022 |
see how china dey take play game |
Foreign Affairs / “chinese People Responded To Nato's Call Not To Support Russia In Anyway by nurudeen181(m): 2:35pm On Mar 17, 2022 |
China has dismissed calls from NATO for it not to support Russia
in any way on Thursday, reminding the bloc it was its US-led forces
which bombed its embassy in Belgrade during the 1999 attack on
Yugoslavia.
“Chinese people can fully relate to the pains and sufferings of other
countries because we will never forget who had bombed our
embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. We need no lecture
on justice from the abuser of international law,” a spokesman for
the Beijing’s diplomatic mission to the EU said , responding to
remarks made by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Branding NATO a “Cold War remnant,” the diplomat suggested the
organization needed to do some self-reflection to examine if it was
contributing to world peace and stability, with its expansion and
military operations.
Stoltenberg targeted China on Tuesday ahead of a NATO defense
ministers’ emergency meeting. He suggested Beijing should “join
the rest of the world in condemning strongly the brutal invasion of
Ukraine by Russia” and said that any kind of support for Moscow
now would help it “to continue to wage war which is causing death,
suffering and an enormous amount of destruction.”
“China has an obligation as a member of the UN Security Council to
actually support and uphold international law,” he added.
Russia’s attack against Ukraine, which it launched in late February,
was partially justified by NATO’s creeping expansion. Moscow said
it posed an increasing threat to its national security that had to be
eliminated after the US and its allies refused to deescalate the
situation peacefully. Russia also said it had to protect rebels in
eastern Ukraine from continued attacks by Ukrainian government
forces.
Beijing voiced support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, but agreed
with Moscow’s rationale, saying that NATO’s European expansion
was clearly provocative. China refused to impose sanctions against
Russia and criticized nations that did so, calling such measures
illegal and damaging to the world economy.
An American B-2 bomber hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade at
around midnight on May 7, 1999, killing three Chinese journalists
and injuring some 20 people. The targeting was done by the CIA,
which later claimed it wanted to provide coordinates for a nearby
military depot.
President Bill Clinton apologized for the attack, calling it an
accident.
NATO launched the 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia
without authorization from the UN Security Council, where both
Russia and China vetoed all attempts. The military action was
justified by a need to protect rebels in Kosovo from continued
attacks by Yugoslav forces. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Putin Mocks US: Western ‘Attempt To Have Global Dominance Is Coming To An End by nurudeen181(m): 9:53am On Mar 17, 2022 |
WibusJaga:Nigeria would have been better though we wouldnt know cos of our stupidity |
Politics / Re: Reps Urge Automatic Jobs For First Class Graduates by nurudeen181(m): 7:09am On Mar 17, 2022 |
what i dont get is, is it only universities that trains graduates and is it only in universities that best brains are? |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Military Expert Explains ‘slow’ Russian Advance In Ukraine by nurudeen181(m): 6:26am On Mar 17, 2022 |
war |
Foreign Affairs / American Military Expert Explains ‘slow’ Russian Advance In Ukraine by nurudeen181(m): 6:26am On Mar 17, 2022 |
Russia has largely achieved its objective of neutralizing the
Ukrainian military, but Western governments mistakenly believe the
deliberate progress designed to avoid civilian casualties reflects
weakness and are funneling weapons to prolong the fighting, a
former top Pentagon adviser has said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given strict orders from the
outset to avoid civilian casualties and extensive property damage,
retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor told the Grayzone in an
extensive interview on Tuesday.
This has slowed the Russians’ advance “to the point where it has
given false hope both to the Ukrainians … but seized on by people in
the West, to try and convince the world that a defeat is in progress,
when in fact the opposite is the case,” Macgregor said.
“The war, for all intents and purposes, has been decided,” the
retired colonel said. “The entire operation from day one was
focused on the destruction of Ukrainian forces. That’s largely
complete.”
The Ukrainian units still active “are completely surrounded, cut off
and isolated in various towns and cities,” said Macgregor, including
as many as 60,000 on the border with Donetsk, whose supplies are
likely running out by now.
Media coverage of the fighting, however, ignores this reality and
paints a picture of the Russian military being “inept” – in the words
of some US senators – because it didn’t defeat Kiev in mere days.
This is then used as an argument by advocates of NATO
intervention and a “no-fly zone,” but also those who wish to send
more weapons to Kiev.
“It’s very obvious Washington wants this to continue as long as
possible, in hopes Russia would be desperately harmed. I just don’t
see that happening,” Macgregor told Grayzone on Tuesday.
The biggest problem right now is that “in the West, there is no
truth. There is wishful thinking and there is this impression of
success by the Ukrainians that doesn’t stack up,” the colonel added.
“The biggest lie I’ve heard repeated on television is, Russian troops
have been told to deliberately murder Ukrainian civilians. That’s
absurd, it’s nonsense.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the US Congress on
Wednesday to send fighter jets, air defense missiles and other
weapons to Kiev, as well as establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine,
so his army could defeat Russia. He made the same argument to
Canadian lawmakers on Tuesday.
Macgregor, however, believes that such shipments will have no
effect and that Zelensky’s refusal to negotiate an armistice is only
going to get more Ukrainians killed. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: The Power Of Russia by nurudeen181(m): 8:55am On Mar 16, 2022 |
CoronaVirusPro:human beign, there wasnt any sukhoi 34 that was shot doen here in this video, this was a video where the air defence syatem of ukrain brought down a russian missile... |
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